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Maastrichtian

Maa·stricht·i·anadjective, noun

Maastrichtian is spelled M-A-A-S-T-R-I-C-H-T-I-A-N: 13 letters and 4 syllables (Maa·stricht·i·an). It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Maastrichtian means “Of or pertaining to Maastricht” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Maastrichtian?

Letters13: M-A-A-S-T-R-I-C-H-T-I-A-N
Syllables4: Maa·stricht·i·an
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Maastrichtian?

Maastrichtian appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Maastrichtian?

Maastrichtian has 4 syllables, split Maa·stricht·i·an in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-Maastrichtian.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Maastrichtian

  • more Maastrichtian comparative
  • most Maastrichtian superlative
  • Maastrichtians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Maastrichtian mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to Maastricht.

  2. 2

    Of or pertaining to the Maastrichtian Age geological period.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone from Maastricht

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Maastrichtian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmaastrichtien m/maastrichtienne (pertaining to Maastricht), Maastrichtien m/Maastrichtienne (denizen of Maastricht)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Maastrichtian come from?

From Maastricht + -ian.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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